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1. Brit a statement on the progress, academic achievement, etc., of each child in a school, written by teachers and sent to the parents or guardian annually or each term
2. a written account of a case decided at law, giving the main points of the argument on each side, the court's findings, and the decision reached
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report

[ri′pȯrt]
(acoustics)
Sharp explosive sound, as of a shot, bursting bomb, or projectile.
(computer science)
An output document prepared by a data-processing system.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

report

A term used by ATC (air traffic control) to instruct pilots to advise ATC of specific information or to pass the same to ATC.
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report

A printed or microfilmed collection of facts and figures with page numbers and page headings. See report writer and query.
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Report

 

(1) An oral or written statement in a form stipulated by regulations for servicemen in addressing commanders. In the navy the watch officer makes a morning report to the ship commander. It provides information on the condition of the ship, the weather, and the situation at sea for a given period of time.

(2) A statement concerning the fulfillment of an assignment or obligation.


Report

 

a written or oral exposition of a theme, including a review of the related literature and other sources. A report generally aims to provide scientific or scholarly information. Reports are widely used in scientific research institutions, higher educational institutions, political education institutions, and people’s universities. In general-education schools and specialized secondary educational institutions, reports include essays prepared by students on an extracurricular subject.

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"I will now report back to my board to inform them of developments and we look forward to further talks in the near future to bring this matter to resolution." (ANI)
And the purpose was not really to break down those people--often they had nothing to give--but to photograph them in a compromised position and say: "Go home, find the insurgency, join it, and report back to us or we'll show these to your relatives and people in your village."
The committee is expected to report back to the legislature in the spring of 2005.
The MMA simply calls on the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to study the problem and report back to Congress by July 2005.
It also requests that the President of the California School Food Service Association report back to the Legislature by January l, 2008, about the progress of these initiatives.
Anxiety about the trip and having to report back to one's boss afterwards, or simply everyday anxieties, can also have an impact.
The task force will report back to the senior bishops, or metropolitans, of the Canadian church by the end of February and present a recommendation to the house of bishops at its April meeting.
Since our fully dedicated staff stabilized the situation, we did not have to scramble to ask workers to report back to work.
Davies was told to report back the following morning for a chorionic vilius sampling test, an invasive procedure with a high risk of miscarriage, and assured that, if it also proved positive, a "termination" could be very quickly arranged.
Spyware wastes bandwidth, slows computers, conflicts with other software and leads to system instability, especially those that report back continuously.
As the newest link in the MEECN, this effort provides LLCs with the ability to receive emergency action messages in the EHF and VLF and LF spectra and send force report back messages over EHF.
When the Office of Indian Affairs seeks, in 1837, to learn about the culture and numbers of the Cheyenne Indians, Yale graduate Thomas McCabe volunteers to make contact and report back. He cuts his ties to his fiancee and heads west, entering "Unorganized Territory," the area between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains.
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